Fact extraction

Fact Extraction or Faktenextrahierung is the desire, in the automatic summarization of texts using techniques of computational linguistics a coherent create new text.

It is thus part of text extraction , a specialty of data mining . In contrast to text extraction , the knowledge of key phrases does not result in purely formal ones, so that U. incomprehensible summaries determined.

The knowledge gained about the content of a text with the help of fact extraction is used as the basis for generating a completely new, much shorter text. This is then the summary of the original text and is usually referred to as an abstract .

The summaries produced in this way are mostly coherent, but this approach requires extensive knowledge bases and its performance depends on the type of text.